Are you suggesting they're gonna automate the whole shebang?
And yet they still need ICBMs?
I used to think you weren't giving Kim Il Sung enough credit for brains. Now I'm starting to think you're giving him too much.
Say, how does it navigate? We control the GPS satellites. Inertial guidance is no good over the long haul. Compass is horribly imprecise. It can't very well surface and ask for directions. A star tracker? Think that regime can build and use one of those?
These backward terrorists using our technology against us works - once. Actually, now that we've upped our vigilance, it hasn't worked a second time. No successful terrorist attacks on our soil since 9/11. That's partly luck, but not all luck.
So you wanna wait until our luck runs out, or take on the threats now? `Coz to hold off of the PRK because of fear of retaliation is to submit to blackmail. And a blackmailer always increases his demands. What happens when he demands we all be annexed by North Korea and starve to death under their Stalinist economy? That's gonna be a whole lot more deaths than any swimming nuke. And they will be deaths wholly without honor or dignity. Is that what you want? Ten of millions dead later, because you wouldn't risk a couple of millions now?
No matter how you look at it, it just doesn't make sense to be indefinitely paralzyed by fear of what Kim might do. Right now he appears to have both nukes and an ICBM delivery system. We know he has no compunction about mass murder. A coward would say, give him whatever he wants and hope he eats us last. A leftist loon - probably insincerely - would say we oughta be invading his turf right now instead of picking on poor little Saddam. I reject both these extremes, and the idiocies that support them. My stance is the middle ground, the MODERATE approach. I say: stall for time now, while we work on a defense for the weapon we actually KNOW he has. Then go for it.
Unless anyone has a better idea? Anyone?
Seems you're the only one besides me around here who has any inclination to even try to think strategically. But if you want to box me into a corner, you need to try a lot harder.
